How are the veggies coming along?

[sime42]

24 minutes ago, Mesterh said:

Nice, we seem to have quite a decent crop of chillies too. I think they are scotch bonnets, prairie fire cilli, maybe, and some other one which I can't remember the name of. Need to get them hung and dried before they start to rot! 

 

Has anyone had any luck in managing to keep the plenty alive over the winter? 

 

The chilli plants you mean?

 

I've tried before, indoors on window sills. Managed to keep a couple alive over winter, thinking they'd get a head start and do better than new plants the following spring. They didn't. The new plants quickly overtook them after a couple of months and produced more fruit. I think they really miss sunlight over the winter, as well as the heat. 

[Mesterh]

Yep the chillies. Thats a shame I thought well established plants would do well. Ahh well, bin them and buy new next year then.

 

[sime42]

 

 

Yeah, that was what I concluded. Though I had them in a dim unheated garage I think, maybe if they were in a bright, warm conservatory or something they'd do better. 

 

No need to buy more seeds, just use some from last year's chillies. They're always viable. Dead easy, especially if your drying them out anyway.